Original British WWII Vickers Oil Bottle Body Hand Select:No It had a folding butt

It had a folding butt stock and had a swiveling carrying handle on the ventilated barrel jacket

Sold in uncleaned condition just as we found them in Nepal after 150 years of storage

For the last 40 years these were the helmets used by the Northern Ireland Police for Riot Control that were seen almost daily on every news channel around the world during the unrest in Northern Ireland

Although introduced sixty years ago (1952)

which can be faint

Original British WWII Vickers Oil Bottle Body Hand Select:No It had a folding buttOriginal Item: In the Vickers gun, the gunner holds two wooden spade type hand grips. The wooden grips are installed over two hollow steel tubes designed to function as oil and solvent bottles. The bottles are closed and externally threaded at the bottom to screw into the lower grip support. The lower end is provided with two recesses for a spanner wrench if removal is necessary. The upper end is threaded internally to accept a cap.